DEER FREAKS...and decoys.
DEER FREAKS… and decoys.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center | Asheville, NC
9/27/2024-3/25 2025
Presented below and in conjunction with The Farm at Black Mountain College , curated by David Silver and Bruce Johanssen. DEER FREAKS… and decoys. explores the hyper-natural forces of attraction and repulsion informing our interactions with the landscapes we inhabit. This open “call” via a series of prompts welcomed submissions from fence rows to scare-crows, documenting the creative ways people propagate, shape, lure, and protect in their environments.
Both exhibitions were originally set to open on September 27, 2024, but the museum didn’t reopen for some time after Hurricane Helene, until power and water had been restored to downtown Asheville. We have only recently been able to gather again in our studio in Swannanoa’s historic Beacon Village, and we feel lucky every day that it- and we- are still here.
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Asheville Mall | space K-18 | Asheville, NC
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A day of collective healing and community resilience on the historic grounds of Warren Wilson College| Swannanoa, NC 11/23/2024
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Lamplight AVL | The Residency at 821 | Asheville, NC
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Puppet Fashion Pie | “How Do We Disappear Yet Still Be Seen?”
(a closing reception for DEER FREAKS… and decoys.)
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center | Asheville, NC
3/14/2025
(Left)Love Letters To Nature - WWC Students
(Right) DEER FREAK worksheet holder - Experimental Art Club
Photo courtesy of BMCM+AC
Installation View: L-R Kite by Kaylee Dunn, Honeysuckled by Sally Anne Morgan
Photo courtesy of BMCM+AC
Installation View: Chickens by Miller
Photo courtesy of BMCM+AC
Installation View of DEER FREAKS... and decoys. | 2025
special edition Sow True x BMCM+AC Seed Packet design by KO, MW, and KD of Swannatopia. Available for purchase in the bookshop.